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Talking & Bleeding Skulls.

Happiness is walking through a department store and uncovering a skull-shaped "Bleeding Brains" candle...


Unhappiness is getting home, taking it out of the bag, and seeing a zombie version of said "Bleeding Brains" candle on the back of the box, which is approximately seven trillion times cooler than some everyday skull.


Happiest Possible Level of Happiness is finding out that you bought the zombie version and just didn't know it.


Can't wait to light him up. Even unused, it's one of the prettiest items gracing our living room. But, when lit, he's supposed to dribble out tons of bloody wax from his mouth, ears and eye sockets. I'd start the process now, but it seems like something I should hold off on until company comes over.

While I'm oh so happy to have lucked into my bleeding demon candle, I don't mean to infer that skulls are bad news. In fact, today's Countdown entry takes a look at one very nice skull, who talks and has blinking red eyes. Meet Talking Boris, a skull head who will say anything you tell it to say, even if it's some obscenity-laced tirade about gasoline prices.

Posted by Matt on 09/19/2007. E-mail me!



Discussion Thread: 102 comments
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Yay I got first! Time to get drunk and read it… ^_^

Chestnuts roasted by Wysefool @ 09/19/2007 12:36 AM

Oh. My. God. Where did you make that incredible find? I need one of those like nobody’s business. The missus would freak out if presented with a melting zombie head, and so would I. Needless to say that they would be two different kinds of freaks, but that’s what Halloween is all about.

Chestnuts roasted by Declan Dempsey @ 09/19/2007 12:37 AM

3.97 at Wal-Mart.

Chestnuts roasted by Matt @ 09/19/2007 12:40 AM

Oh man I want one!

Chestnuts roasted by mjgrass @ 09/19/2007 12:42 AM

the zombie candle = cool
boris the “talking skull” = lame
what really interests me is the old disney channel magazine that boris was resting on. That was from when disney channel was good, when you had to pay extra for it! (or wait for the blessed free preview weekend)

Chestnuts roasted by maticdog @ 09/19/2007 12:45 AM

Hey Matt, no topic today to discuss?

Chestnuts roasted by mjgrass @ 09/19/2007 12:48 AM

I have a somewhat earlier version of the talking skull that I’ve completely given up trying to scare trick-or-treaters with. Kids wouldn’t even take the slightest notice of the thing, let alone attempt to decipher the garbled mess intended to be threats of death and dismemberment spewing from its clanking jaws.

Chestnuts roasted by Monte @ 09/19/2007 12:48 AM

Monte: Might be a good thing, nowadays a parent would sue you for scaring their child too badly.

Chestnuts roasted by mjgrass @ 09/19/2007 12:51 AM

Matt, how does the wax smell?

About 15 years ago I got the Hand of Glory version of these candles, and the smell when it was burning was bizarre. It was ultimately so off-putting I had to toss the candle. It was sort of sweet, waxy and oily all together, with a strange chemical over lay. I really want to get another candle like it, but that smell is something I can still remember a decade and a half later.

Chestnuts roasted by LemonWitch @ 09/19/2007 12:52 AM

Hands Down, the coolest candle ive ever seen, hope they have them in my neck of the woods.
Awesome find Matt!

Chestnuts roasted by JoshC @ 09/19/2007 12:57 AM

I own a Pirates of the Caribbean talking skull that I have on my door. I always wanted to scare people with it by saying my own phrases. So I ask you, Matt: Where did you find Boris? That things was tailor-made for me.

Chestnuts roasted by RageTreb @ 09/19/2007 1:01 AM

I am so going to Wal-Mart to get one of those candles, be it the zombi-fied or skull-tacular version. I checked out the Hallo-selection at Target tonight, for the first time, and was pleasantly surprised. I didn’t pick up anything but plan on loading up the next time I hit up the store to grocery shop.

BTW, is anyone else sort of annoyed with the Taco Bell commercial that tries to sell us New Cheesy Beef Melts all to the tune of Modern English’s “I Melt With You”? Seeing people with eight inches of rubbery-looking strings hanging out of their mouths, representing “cheese”, is not appetizing. Yech.

Chestnuts roasted by Magic Toy @ 09/19/2007 1:01 AM

That thing is pretty awesome.

Magic Toy, I hate that commercial. >:( Plus, I hate cheese.

Chestnuts roasted by Annette @ 09/19/2007 1:07 AM

I want to remind you all that in 2 hours it will be TALK LIKE A PIRATE DAY.

Demonic talking skulls are very appropriate!
Mwahahahaha!

Chestnuts roasted by Wysefool @ 09/19/2007 1:11 AM

That skull/bleeding brain looks like a buy from Big Lots. Like this potential Halloween costumn.
http://i161.photobucket.com/albums/t201/veggiemacabre/ImportedPhotos00001.jpg

Chestnuts roasted by Bill @ 09/19/2007 1:23 AM

I got the skull candle last year for Halloween and kept that bitch in the bathroom till there was nothing left of it. That was love on first sight, that was. My roommie at the time kept reminding me how weird she thought it was that I insisted on keeping Halloween decorations hanging around all year round, but since they were pretty much confined to my bedroom and “my” bathroom (the hall bath, since she had her own private one), she didn’t complain too much. She just refused to use the hall bath as long as “that stupid skull thing” was in there. I actually went to Wal Mart earlier tonight, held the skull candle in my hand and decided to wait till I moved in 3 weeks to buy any decoartions. But, this shit’s starting to get uncanny. Why?

A couple of weekends ago I went to Target, went ga-ga over some new hanging Freddy puppet looking thing and talked myself out of buying it. Came home. Matt wrote an article about it.

Tonight–Went to Wal Mart. Saw the skull candle. Thought about it. Talked myself out of it. Came home. We all see what happened.

Ok, universe. I’m listening. But, I’m moving in 3 weeks. I gotta skrimp and save. As soon as I’m settled in, I’ll go nuts–have a MAJOR shopping spree. Swear to X-E. But, this is starting to get weird.

As for Boris the talking skull, I just can’t see myself shelling out 25 bucks for that. But, I’m really glad Matt did.

Chestnuts roasted by DJ D @ 09/19/2007 1:36 AM

I want! I want!

Chestnuts roasted by LynnStarrrr @ 09/19/2007 2:13 AM

That candle…is amazing. The expression makes me think of a zombie gangsta rapper. I guess tupac is (un)dead after all.

Chestnuts roasted by Ken @ 09/19/2007 2:38 AM

Also, I think I need to get boris, if only to have him send laserbeak to spy on the autobots in his robotic voice.

Chestnuts roasted by Ken @ 09/19/2007 2:47 AM

hell yeah. we actually have that zombie one in our living room right now. you want to watch the candle when it drops from his skull to the mouth, because it might tilt over and get messed up. but other than that it’s awesome.

Chestnuts roasted by Eddie Lightning Frog @ 09/19/2007 3:06 AM

ps and sorry to double post, but we got it at walgreens. just in case yall arent finding it at walmart. its at the other ‘wal’.

Chestnuts roasted by Eddie Lightning Frog @ 09/19/2007 3:08 AM

I saw the skeleton candle at Walmart, but not the zombie. Maybe I just saw the wrong side of the box. I’m kind of glad to hear that Boris is flawed, it makes it easier to resist running out and buying him. What a great addition to Talk Like a Pirate Day he would be, though.

Chestnuts roasted by squee4242 @ 09/19/2007 3:25 AM

It’s scary as hell in the video but I can’t understand a word coming out of it’s mouth, maybe that makes it scarier.

Chestnuts roasted by Wysefoo @ 09/19/2007 3:31 AM

Shiver me timbers!! That be a fine talkin’ skull ye has there… Arrrrr!!

And a lovely TLAPD t’ya all!!

Chestnuts roasted by Fungusmungus @ 09/19/2007 3:35 AM

Its funny, but last year I got the finger puppets and skull candle at Walmart, and about 5 years earlier I got the bag of creepy crawlies I used as monsters in D&D games from Ames when they still existed.
Dammit Matt! You are supposed to show stuff I want to waste money on for no good reason, not remind me of doing it in years past!

But the skull candle rocks. It takes some time to get going though.

Chestnuts roasted by Bloodcat @ 09/19/2007 3:58 AM

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